In order to understand the role of religion in society, Durkheim goes beyond the explanation offer by the redcliffe and Brown and argues that society is the creator of religion and religious symbols are nothing but the symbolic representation of society itself.
Emile Durkheim in his seminal work() study the role which religion plays in society right from the primate society to modern one
A unified system of belief and practices related to sacred things, that is to say thing set apart and forbidden, belief and practices, which unit them into a single moral community, for all those who adhere to them.
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